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Printing food

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Printing food

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- [Instructor] In the early days of consumer 3D printing, there was a lot of hype about 3D printing food. What's the current reality, and why would you want to 3D print food in the first place? A lot of food items are extruded in normal manufacturing already. Pasta, for example, both at the consumer scale and in industrial scale is extruded. A food 3D printer allows a desire to specify all three dimensions. Extruding through dies like these is much faster than 3D printing, and the third dimension is achieved by cutting off the pieces at the desired length. For something like pasta or one of the many other extruded foods you probably already have around your kitchen, this method of high volume production is efficient, and 3D printing wouldn't make much sense, but what if you wanted to have that third dimension for aesthetic or other reasons? Desserts and fancy chocolates have been one area where this has caught on,…

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